Special featuring ‘Deadliest Catch’ star premieres tonight

The KOMO/4 sports anchor and reporter took a break from his beat to hang out with Captain Sig Hansen, a Seattle crab fisherman who also happens to star in the Discovery Channel show “Deadliest Catch.”

Ferreri followed Hansen to Portland, where Rogue Ales will debut a new beer in his honor; to New York, where he appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brian,” and to Seafair, where the unlikely star flew with the Blue Angels.

The special premieres tonight on KOMO/4 at 10 p.m.

“The thing that surprised me most about Sig is how humble he is,” Ferreri said. “He would have one cool thing after another happen and he’d always say to me, ‘This is unreal. I’m a crab fisherman.’”

Ferreri and his crew have been shooting scenes from their visits since the end of May.

“I’ve covered Superbowls and NCAA championship games and this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in television.”

At one point, the sports anchor got a peek inside Hansen’s freezer — full of crab and salmon and fish cakes — and sat down with him to a Norwegian dinner.

“Sig gave me one of these mean stares and made me eat pickled herring,” Ferreri said. “I actually liked it.”